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“The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.”

Life Humans Life Is Natural Rhythm Human Life Routine

Book:Complete Essays: 1930-1935

Source: Complete Essays: 1930-1935

“Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.”

People Life Trying Turns Born Sea Wind Casts Blow Boat Rhythm Tides Harbors

Author:Cynthia Voigt

“In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.”

Life Ends Play Light Pain Too Much Glad Rhythm Ecstasy Tire

Book:Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.”

Source: Time Wars: The Primary Conflict in Human History